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Production Year

2007

Screening Time

86 min

Producer

Yoav Halevy

Director

Hanan Peled

Screenplay

Hanan Peled

Director of Photography

Valentin Belonogov

Editing

Simon Spector
Isaac Zechayek

Original Music

Yoni Bluch

Art Director

Jacob Torjeman

Custom Design

Rona Doron

Lead Cast

Rami Heuberger, Yavgenia Dodina, Ido Port, Dov Glikman, Evelin Kaplon, Roy Mayer, Ela Armoni

Release Date

2008

Supported By

Israel Film Fund, Keshet Broadcasting, Wexstrust Capitol, Globus Group, Kolnoa Haskaot

Synopsis

In the early sixties, Hilik, a ten years old boy who lives in Tel Aviv, knows he and his brother’s goal in life – to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief and lost they had suffered in the Holocaust. Moishe, Hilik’s father, chooses to believe that his lost son, from his first marriage, didn’t die in Auschwitz as he thought, and somehow escaped to America to become President Kennedy’s assistant. As he has never really accepted the fact that he is the only survivor from his family, Moishe is sinking back to his past, torn between his fear that his father would abandon him, and the wish to make him happy, Hilik chooses to test his father’s love for him, while accepting the risk of loosing him.

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Reviews

Jerusalem Post

“Well-written and superbly acted .The film’s performances are uniformly outstanding. Rami Heuberger gives one of the best leading performances I’ve ever seen in an Israeli film as the emotionally wounded father… The excellent production design and costumes prove that Israeli film has truly come of age in this area. “

Hanna Brown
Jerusalem Post

Boston Phoenix

“The hilarious and heart-rending chaos that erupts transcends cliché. A scene in which two Holocaust survivors clutch together in an illicit embrace passes from broad comedy to wrenching pathos to stark horror, and the performances, especially from the changeling-like Port, haunt the memory.”

Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

Jewish Journal

“Dear Mr. Waldman is about compassion, family relationships and loss. It is about death and resurrection, and about the ghosts we carry around in our hearts.”

Susan Jacobs
Jewish Journal

Film Festivals

  • Palm Springs Int. Film Festival. Usa. 2007. USA, Premier
  • Munich Int. Film Festival, Germany, 2007, European Premier
  • Jerusalem Int. Film Festival, Israel, 2006.
  • Reheboth Beach Independent Film Festival, 2007
  • CLOSING NIGHT FILM, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (2007)
  • Israel Film Festival, LA, USA 2007
  • Central New Jersey Jewish Film Festival (2007)
  • Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema (2007)
  • San Diego Jewish Film Festival (2008)
  • Sacramento Jewish Film Festival (2008)
  • Denver Jewish Film Festival (2008)
  • Israel Nonstop, NYC (2008)

3 Nominations

Best Actor, Best supporting actress, Best Art Direction Israeli Academy Awards, 2007

AUDIENCE AWARD

Reheboth Beach Independent Film Festival, 2007

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